Frank Field

Frank Ernest Field (16 July 1942-) was the Labour Party MP for Birkenhead from 3 May 1979, succeeding Edmund Dell.

Biography
Frank Field was born in Edmonton, Middlesex, England in 1942, and he came from a working-class family supportive of the Conservative Party. He was also a Conservative during his youth, but he left in 1960 due to his opposition to apartheid, becoming a Labour Party member. He worked as a teacher before serving as a councillor in the London borough of Hounslow from 1964 to 1968, and, in 1979, he became the Labour MP for Birkenhead in Merseyside. Despite his party affiliation, he was a social conservative who believed in "faith, family, and flag", who saw Margaret Thatcher as a hero, and who supported the return of national service to combat national unemployment. Despite this, he refused to return to the Conservatives.